{"id":428391,"date":"2023-03-05T04:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428391"},"modified":"2023-03-05T03:33:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T08:33:26","slug":"de-minaur-wins-in-acapulco-with-another-comback","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/de-minaur-wins-in-acapulco-with-another-comback\/","title":{"rendered":"De Minaur wins in Acapulco with another comback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex de Minaur stormed back after losing the opening set and nn Saturday, his effort against Tommy Paul earned him the seventh and biggest title of his career at Acapulco.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian claimed his first ATP 500 crown with a battling 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 victory in severe Mexican humidity.<\/p>\n<p>After methodically working his way back into the match in set two, De Minaur landed what proved to be a decisive blow by saving five break points in a marathon five-deuce game to open the final set. When De Minaur fought off those chances with a combination of big serves and steely baseline play, Paul could not recover as the Aussie rattled off seven straight games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Alex De Minaur comes through the Acapulco Final 3-6 6-4 6-1 playing a really strong third set. 7th title overall and 1st at the 500 level. Great effort!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nG8IKQQIHw\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/nG8IKQQIHw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vansh (@vanshv2k) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vanshv2k\/status\/1632258821145100288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&#8220;It feels great, it feels amazing,&#8221; De Minaur said just before the trophy ceremony. &#8220;I know the hard work that&#8217;s put in to be here and it&#8217;s good to see the results. It&#8217;s not always that you win the tournament and you get to finish a week unbeaten, so I&#8217;ll definitely cherish this going into Indian Wells and Miami.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex de Minaur stormed back after losing the opening set and nn Saturday, his effort against Tommy Paul earned him the seventh and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":428394,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17953],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[17954],"acf":{"announce":"He saved five break points in the second set to turn the match around","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428391"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428391"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}